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I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
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I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
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Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.
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By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.
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